I suppose I should be wary of the Ides of September, so far, I’ve had a half dozen Virgo [people] get really cranky with me because I obviously missed something. It’s sad but certainly recurrent theme in my life. I didn’t get the memo. I was not privy to that information. Something, whatever it was that I did [or didn’t do] upset them all terribly. The grand “Secret Virgo Command” center didn’t send me that note. Pursuant to a conversation with my old buddy the teacher, I got around to reading “Pillars of the Earth.” The whole book long, until close to the end, I was pretty sure it was historical fiction about a single cathedral in some backwater town during the very beginning of the English Renaissance, possibly just a little bit before. I was wondering why my old buddy had recommended it so highly, but I wonder now, looking at the novel, and thinking about it after I finished, separation of church and state?